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A total of 125 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll linked to the disease to 14 871, according to the April 15 report by the national information system. Of 15 297 tests, 2517 – about 16.5 per cent – proved positive. There are 68 707 active cases, a decrease of 1295 in the past 24 hours. A total of 9685 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a decrease of 114 in the past 24 hours, with 807 in intensive care, an increase of eight. Fifty-nine medical personnel tested positive in the past 24 hours, bringing th...

Bulgaria’s outgoing government of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 15 that it disbanded the national Covid-19 response staff, but gave no reason for its decision. In a brief statement, the Cabinet’s media service said that the decision was “effective today” and noted that it was set up in February 2020 by Borissov’s order. The statement said that its task was to “organise and co-ordinate the actions of state institutions” concerning the coronavirus pandemic declared by the World Health Organization. That decision was made on February 24 2020, after a meeting of the C...

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.6 per cent in March, compared to 0.1 per cent deflation a month earlier, data released by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on April 14 showed. Monthly inflation in March was 0.1 per cent, the seventh time that the monthly CPI figure showed an increase over the previous 12 months, which also saw deflation recorded four times and one month of zero growth. Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the inflation indicator, it limited NSI’s ability to collect the data, with the statistics body saying that it had to extrapolate abo...

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With 67 deaths registered in the past 24 hours, Bulgaria’s death toll linked to Covid-19 is 14 418, according to the April 12 report by the national information system. Of 3658 tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 462 – about 12.6 per cent – proved positive. To date, 371 993 cases of new coronavirus have been confirmed in Bulgaria. There are 71 317 active cases, a decrease of 64 compared with the figure in the April 11 report. A total of 10 382 patients with Covid-19 are in hospital, a decrease of 17 in the past 24 hours, with 797 in intensive care, an increase of four. The repor...